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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
	sean.j.christopherson@intel.com, wanpengli@tencent.com,
	jmattson@google.com, joro@8bytes.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] KVM: x86: remove set but not used variable 'called'
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:39:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119123956.GC5604@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imnggidr.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:58:54PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> >> Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
> >> >
> >> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: In function kvm_make_scan_ioapic_request_mask:
> >> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7911:7: warning: variable called set but not
> >> > used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> >> >
> >> > It is not used since commit 7ee30bc132c6 ("KVM: x86: deliver KVM
> >> > IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs")
> >> 
> >> Better expressed as 
> >> 
> >> Fixes: 7ee30bc132c6 ("KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs")
> >> 
> >
> > There is sort of a debate about this whether the Fixes tag should be
> > used if it's only a cleanup.
> >
> 
> I have to admit I'm involved in doing backporting sometimes and I really
> appreciate Fixes: tags. Just so you know on which side of the debate I
> am :-)

But we're not going to backport this hopefully?

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-19  3:06 [PATCH -next] KVM: x86: remove set but not used variable 'called' Mao Wenan
2019-11-19 11:58 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-11-19 12:14   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-11-19 12:28     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-11-19 12:39       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-11-19 13:25         ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-11-22 11:58           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-11-22 12:25             ` Dan Carpenter
2019-11-22 12:45               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-11-21  9:13     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-22  0:48       ` maowenan
2019-11-22  2:39       ` [PATCH -next v2] " Mao Wenan
2019-11-19 12:42   ` [PATCH -next] " maowenan
2019-11-19 13:27     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov

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